Group: humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
From: "bobgrumman@nut-n-but.net"
Date: Saturday, March 29, 2008 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: Jim is right: the Droeshout portrait is not unusual at all!

On Mar 29, 10:41=A0am, Tom Reedy wrote:
> In the not-so-new-but-just-now-read-by-me Shakespeare Survey 60, June
> Schlueter makes a compelling case that the younger Martin Droeshout
> was the engraver of the First Folio portrait, based to a large extent
> on Christiaan Schuckman's discovery of 10 Droeshout engravings in
> Spain that he announced in 1991.
>
> On page 239 she reproduces one of the engravings, that of Francisco de
> la Pa=F1a, that in style is almost a reversed mirror image of the
> Shakespeare portrait, complete with the neckless head sitting on a
> collar.
>
> So much for the subtle hints pointing to authorship embedded in the FF
> portrait.
>
> TR

Come on, Tom. Schuckman's discoveries prove how many fake authors
were getting credit for the works of aristocrats back then!

What is Shakespeare Survey 60, by the way? I know my local library
won't have it, but is it something most college libraries would have?

--Bob G.